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Floating on the waves we saw the abandoned boat
Not caring to venture back into the canyon
Hoo-Hoo, lying on his stomach and idly digging his...
The carts and carriages crowded close upon
What art thou thrusting that thief-catcher into my face...
Some days elapsed, and ice and icebergs all astern
The feet themselves were heavily padded and nailless
The old man
Can you catch the expression of the Sperm Whale’s...

Floating on the waves we saw the abandoned boat

January 17, 2013 | Themnific | 0

Soon after, two cries in quick succession on each side of us denoted that the other boats had got fast; but hardly were they overheard, when with a lightning-like hurtling whisper Starbuck said: “Stand up!” and Queequeg, harpoon in hand, sprang to his feet. Though not one of the oarsmen was then facing the life ...

Not caring to venture back into the canyon

January 12, 2013 | Themnific | 0

The thing was an enormous cave bear, rearing its colossal bulk fully eight feet at the shoulder, while from the tip of its nose to the end of its stubby tail it was fully twelve feet in length. As it sighted the Sagoths it emitted a most frightful roar, and with open mouth charged full ...

Hoo-Hoo, lying on his stomach and idly digging his toes in the sand – post with gallery

January 12, 2013 | Themnific | 0

“It is true, she was a waitress,” Granser acknowledged. “But she was a good woman, and your mother was her daughter. Women were very scarce in the days after the Plague. She was the only wife I could find, even if she was a hash-slinger, as your father calls it. But it is not nice ...

The carts and carriages crowded close upon

January 12, 2013 | Themnific | 0

The carts and carriages crowded close upon one another, making little way for those swifter and more impatient vehicles that darted forward every now and then when an opportunity showed itself of doing so, sending the people scattering against the fences and gates of the villas. “Push on!” was the cry. “Push on! They...

What art thou thrusting that thief-catcher into my face for, man?

January 11, 2013 | Themnific | 0

Um-m. So he must. I do deem it now a most meaning thing, that that old Greek, Prometheus, who made men, they say, should have been a blacksmith, and animated them with fire; for what’s made in fire must properly belong to fire; and so hell’s probable. How the soot flies! This must be the ...

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Some days elapsed, and ice and icebergs all astern

January 11, 2013 | Themnific | 0

For sleeping man, ’twas hard to choose between such winsome days and such seducing nights. But all the witcheries of that unwaning weather did not merely lend new spells and potencies to the outward world. Inward they turned upon the soul, especially when the still mild hours of eve came on; then, memory shot her ...

The feet themselves were heavily padded and nailless

August 21, 2012 | Themnific | 0

But how puny and harmless they now looked beside this huge and terrific incarnation of hate, of vengeance and of death. The man himself, for such I may call him, was fully fifteen feet in height and, on Earth, would have weighed some four hundred pounds. He sat his mount as we sit a horse, ...

The old man

August 20, 2012 | Themnific | 0

The old man peered from under his green leaf at the danger, and stood as quietly as the boy. For a few seconds this mutual scrutinizing went on; then, the bear betraying a growing irritability, the boy, with a movement of his head, indicated that the old man must step aside from the trail and ...

Can you catch the expression of the Sperm Whale’s there?

March 12, 2011 | Themnific | 0

Unordered List Ere this, you must have plainly seen the truth of what I started with—that the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale have almost entirely different heads To sum up, then: in the Right Whale’s there is no great well of sperm; no ivory teeth at all; no long, slender mandible of a lower ...